Comments on: New lynda.com title: InDesign to EPUB, Kindle, and the iPadhttp://indesignsecrets.com/new-lynda-com-title-indesign-to-epub-kindle-and-the-ipad.php
InDesignSecrets Blog and PodcastTue, 03 Mar 2015 16:46:49 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: Jordanhttp://indesignsecrets.com/new-lynda-com-title-indesign-to-epub-kindle-and-the-ipad.php/comment-page-1#comment-492721
Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:37:57 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-492721David: Thank you for the reply and info. That is good to know about the font limitations. I was pulling my hair out trying to find an answer.

I’ll look into scaling as a last resort.

Again, thank you for the help. Much appreciated!

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Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:56:58 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-492704@Jordan: Adobe Digital Editions is very limited with fonts; in fact, all ebook readers these days are very limited with fonts. Most completely ignore fonts. It’s just a huge limitation with the technology right now.

Images do not scale in epubs by default out of InDesign. You can tweak the HTML and CSS to make them scale, but it’s a pretty big pain.

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Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:01:02 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-492701This has been a really great course. I am about half way through and it’s really informative and moves at a great pace!

I do have a question for you. I’ve created character styles for all the chapter titles, but for some reason, when I view the document in Adobe Digital Editions, it’s showing up in a generic font and not the specific font I’ve designated in the character styles. I’ve even created a paragraph style to see if that would help.

I also tried to export the chapter titles as a jpeg and place it back in the document – which works, but it seems when it’s viewed in ADE and you change the text size of the chapter, that jpeg chapter title remain the same size. So, if I go this route and make it into a jpeg, how can I make it scalable?

Any input would be much appreciated. I’m at a loss.

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Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:53:52 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-492534And while I’m here, I see that I’ve neglected some of the other comments, sorry! You should check out my latest version of this title for Lynda.com which covers CS5.5. I didn’t write a blog post about it but there is an InDesignSecrets.com forum thread about it:http://indesignsecrets.com/forum/general-indesign-topics/its-here-indesign-cs5-5-to-epub-kindle-and-ipad

And yes, I’m working on add’l epub topics, including fixed layout epubs, for release in the near future. :D

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Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:50:46 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-492533Awesome Anne-Marie! I am new to epub formatting, and your sample movie above was a great help. I learned something I can use on my current (first) epub project. Your explanation was perfectly clear and understandable. Thank you! :)
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Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:49:58 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-492532Joan: There is no quick trick for 2-column text other than just as you did, which is to convert it to a table. Tables do export to EPUB with default HTML table formatting. But the content in the table cells can’t be too complex (text wrapping around images for example) otherwise it all kind of implodes.

Re the items you’re exporting as images, I honestly don’t know why they look bad in ADE. Did it come out as an actual image? (Can you find it in the EPUB after cracking it open, and previewing the image?) As I mentioned in the video series, ADE is kind of like a lowest common denominator and you can’t rely on it for final proofing. But it should show images as images.

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Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:28:26 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-492521The course is great, but I’m stymied by a couple of things that seem trivial–until I try to do them. One is what to do with lists that are in two columns, separated by a tab. I’ve tried converting to a table for export to ePUB without success. Is there a “quick trick” for converting that to an ePUB (see problem with exporting as an object, which follows).

But an even bigger problem is taking a nicely formatted page in InDesign, grouping it, and exporting it as an object so it maintains its spacing, rules, and so forth. The text in the ePUB file appears with tiny, broken, gray text. This is in Digital Editions. A friend with an iPad says the text looks fine on the iPad. What is going on? How can I be sure the text is going to be readable? (The file validates, if that means anything.)

Thanks.

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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:45:17 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-492107Just completed the Indesign CS5 to epub course, which was a great introduction to epub…no doubt I will reviewing it quite a few times!

I work for a childrens library book publishers and we produce PDF “ebook” at present, sold through our website alongside printed books. Since our books rely on design, photography and illustration I was reading with interest about Apple’s Fixed-layout format – a kind of middle ground between PDF’s and text based epub.

I’d liked to see a future lynda.com title on that subject. Also, if epub’s are essentially mini websites, why does Adobe’s Dreamweaver not the default tool for their creation….a question for Adobe I suppose?

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Tue, 24 May 2011 11:44:01 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-490998Anne-Marie, Thanks for putting together such a easy-to-understand Lynda.com tutorial on design for the ebook. I am struggling with my first InDesign CS5 to ePub/Kindle conversion, and especially with one issue in particular: is there a way to convert text in a box (either with a shaded background or line around several paragraphs of text) to ePub? Does it need to be considered as a graphic, or is there a workaround so it is still reflowable? Thanks for any advice you may have.
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Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:53:51 +0000http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=9843#comment-490709Ms. Concepcion,

The course has been a great help. My husband and I have just about finished. We’ve produced a wonderful novel in epub format but we can’t determine from the training how to go about converting a children’s picture book into an epub. Can you advise?